Film Starts.
Narrator: Oil is part of everything in our life.
The End.
We didn't need 20 minutes to say all that, did we? Shell Oil apparently thought so in funding this film--with an acetate base of OIL!
I hope narrator Mel Venter got paid by the word. He yapped constantly until the 13 1/2 minute mark when there was finally a bit of a music bridge.
There are two short bits of comic relief, one with Harlow Wilcox (is there oil in Johnson Wax?) relating petroleum-based things in a woman's bedroom as they fly away. It would appear her bullet bra is not connected to oil. Toward the end, Cliff Nazarro does his familiar double-talk routine.
I like the recreation at the start with the old car and gas station, though much of the first four minutes of this short was superfluous. And the writer was forced to make Aladdin/Genie analogies whenever possible to fit the title.
1947 Buick at 17:12 .

A pretty standard "what's what" of what you can do with petroleum. Rather than list oil and petroleum's many benefits to society, the filmmakers seem to be locked on listing every single item you can make with petroleum, which becomes mind numbing after awhile. But I did like the bedoir and what happens to the woman at the bedoir when all the things made of petroleum fly off. Bye bye Mr Hairbrush! See ya Mr Mirror! When the robe comes flying off as well, I had a good laugh.